As soon as Hyuga Akira finished speaking, masked figures appeared throughout the room.
They drew their weapons and aimed them at the members of the Hyuga Clan.
"Anbu." The Hyuga Jonin leading the group frowned.
Why had the Anbu appeared?
"This is an internal affair of the Hyuga Clan."
"Sorry, we have orders requiring Hyuga Akira's assistance. You have no authority to take him away."
The Hyuga Jonin leading the group sighed helplessly. With the Anbu intervening, he had no way to take Hyuga Akira away.
He gave Hyuga Akira a long look. "Hyuga Akira, you can't escape."
The Caged Bird Seal would stop any Hyuga clansman who wanted to escape.
The Main Family was the cage, and the branch family could only be birds trapped inside it, never to rise above their station.
Hyuga Akira smiled faintly at him.
The man led Hyuga Dema and the others out through the door.
So how did he get in just now?
Hyuga Akira was puzzled.
This time, he had completely fallen out with the Hyuga Main Family.
His clashes with Hyuga Hiashi could still be called children squabbling.
But openly refusing the Main Family's orders like this meant tearing away the last shred of pretense.
The Main Family also understood that Hyuga Akira would not obediently return with them, which was why they had sent these people to capture him.
Hyuga Dema had volunteered to persuade Hyuga Akira, but unfortunately, it had accomplished nothing at all.
They had never expected the Anbu to step in and protect Hyuga Akira, either.
Of course, that was because they did not know Root existed.
Root currently had only a handful of useful people. It had the numbers, but unfortunately, not a single elite, so its members concealed themselves even more carefully.
Hyuga Akira looked